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Presentation game

The presentation game works as either a party game or a lab meeting activity. The aim of the aim is to present a set of slides that you’ve never seen before, and on a topic you know nothing about.

This can have multiple benefits:

  • Practice presenting
  • Learning to keep to time (this is a sign of respect for your audience!)
  • Learning to think on your feet
  • Get comfortable with public speaking
  • Open discussions about the best and worst ways to design slides (e.g. is there too much text? Is the data understandable? What makes up a ‘hideous’ slide?)
  • Open discussions about what (not) to do when presenting a talk (e.g. facing the audience, projecting your voice, excessive laser-pointer waving)
  • HAVE FUN!

Generally the rules are that each person is randomly allocated a set of slides they’ve never seen before, and you get 5 minutes to present. If it’s at a party, then it can be more free-form, but if it’s a lab activity, then I recommend encouraging people to ask questions about the content, and make notes about the presenter style and pros/cons of the slides to discuss at the end.

Here are a few example sets of slides to get you started! I recommend renaming them so the topic is a surprise to the presenter:

  • Austrian Castles
  • Forests
  • Moons of Saturn
  • Ice Hockey
  • WW2 Aircraft
  • Poetry
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